The Horticulturist S Rule Book

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""In this 1899 work, prolific gardening author Liberty Bailey provides gardeners with practical information on planting and garden management, as well as solutions to such typical gardening problems as insects, plant diseases, and the storage of fruits and vegetables.""

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The Horticulturist's Rule-Book is an incredibly comprehensive compendium of information on the subject of horticulture. A useful reference for many occupations, this book was originally written with Fruit-Growers, Truck-Gardeners, and Florists in mind, containing a wide range of information and comprising chapters such as: Weeds; Waxes for Grafting and for Wounds; Cements, Mortars, Paints and Glues; Postal Rates and Regulations; Rules; Collecting and Preserving, etc. From a veritable dictionary of pesticides to step-by-step guides, this book constitutes the definitive horticulturalists guide not to be missed by enthusiasts and practitioners. We are proud to republish this scarce text with a new introductory biography of the author.

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Excerpt from The Horticulturist's Rule-Book: A Compendium of Useful Information for Fruit-Growers, Truck-Gardeners, Florists and Others Reliable. At the same time, the book has been thor oughly renovated in all departments, and it has been much extended to meet the needs of the many inquir ies which are born of the recent teaching and experi menting in rural affairs. A chapter has been added upon greenhouse work and heating, and another upon the current literature of American horticulture. In its completed form, therefore, it is hoped that the volume will serve to codify and epitomize the best part of the scattered and disconnected horticultural advice and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.